Sentences with phrase «sugars by enzymes»

When you eat carbs, they need to be broken down into single sugars by enzymes before they can be absorbed through your intestinal wall and used by your body.

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For lactose to be digested, these two sugar molecules must be separated by an enzyme called lactase.

When flour comes in contact with water, enzymes will start to break down starch into sugar that can be digested by the yeast bacterias.

This enzyme allows the sucrose to provide crust color during baking, but as you have discovered, sucrose is also a very sweet sugar, so it provides a level of sweetness to the finished crust if there is any residual not metabolized by the yeast.

It is considered one of the most multi-dimensional foods in the world, containing complex sugars, live enzymes and other naturally occurring compounds and is consumed daily by many.

For example, a person may experience abdominal cramps after drinking milk, but this reaction is much more likely to be caused by lactose intolerance (in which a person lacks the enzymes to digest milk sugars) than by an allergy to milk proteins.

There are four different types of lactase deficiency — a lack of the enzyme that breaks down lactose into simple sugars that can then be used by the body, meaning that lactose may pass into the large intestine without being properly broken down — that may lead to intestinal discomfort.

Lactose Intolerance: Lactose intolerance is caused by not having enough of the enzyme lactase, which is needed to break down lactose, the sugar found in milk and other dairy products.

Are the digestive enzymes in its leaves triggered by proteins, by sugars, or both?

In several groups of people, a gene variant allowing the lactase, the enzyme breaking down the sugar in milk, to persist into adulthood became common about 5000 to 7000 years ago, when humans were herding cattle — as evidenced by this rock painting of domestic cattle in the Jebel Acacus region of the Sahara desert in Libya.

Koo's team had previously discovered that an enzyme, GftB, secreted by S. mutans, uses sugar from the diet to manufacture glue - like polymers called glucans.

She found that, in order to be transported, the adhesin protein needed to be modified with specific sugars by three enzymes acting in a specific sequence.

There are other examples of proteins modified by other simple sugars, but Rumi is the first enzyme known to specifically add glucose.

«A key role is played here by the sugar - transferring enzymes,» comments Schwab.

«We discovered the enzyme YihQ, which is used by bacteria to absorb and metabolise these sulfur - containing sugars as food,» he said.

Researchers from Melbourne and the UK identified a previously unknown enzyme used by bacteria, fungi and other organisms to feed on the unusual but abundant sugar sulfoquinovose — SQ for short — found in green vegetables.

Iogen Corporation has furthered this technology by developing enzymes to convert tough, sugar - bearing cellulose in inexpensively produced agricultural waste into ethanol (opposite page, top).

Enzymes are the powerhouses behind biological chemistry, and the fungi discovered by O'Malley's group — like Anaeromyces robustus (named after the gray whale, partially based on how it looks under the microscope)-- have unusual and desirable characteristics, particularly the ability to transform lignocellulose from plants into sugars.

In work published in The Plant Journal, a team of researchers led by CSHL Associate Professor Zachary Lippman investigated the role of certain evolutionarily conserved enzymes that add specific sugars to various proteins.

Furthermore, by using a digestive enzyme specific for cutting the arabinogalactan sugar chain at various sections, the group was able to identify that a disaccharide moiety containing a methyl - glucuronic acid unit located at the terminus of arabinogalactan, was essential for AMOR's activity.

Mascoma has developed yeast that can be dropped into all cellulosic ethanol fermentation processes to increase yields by fermenting the full array of sugars present in cellulosic fermentations, and by secreting enzymes (cellulases and hemicellulases) that can improve hydrolysis yields.

They are loaded with vitamins, minerals, enzymes and healthy probiotics that heal your gut, kill off the sugar craving by killing the yeast or candida and building up a strong immune system.

Drinks with a high sugar content can lead to water loss by creating an acidic environment that can impair enzyme function and decrease your body's water storage capacity.

Furthermore, phytates interfere with proper digestion by inhibiting the release of pepsin, an enzyme needed to break down protein and amylase, an enzyme needed to break down sugar.

Remarkably, your friendly flora support your metabolism and a healthy weight by producing enzymes that help you digest food and absorb nutrients (so you don't overeat and aren't malnourished), regulating your blood sugar levels so you aren't constantly searching for that next sugar fix and increasing the hormones that tell your brain when you're full.

The lactose in these products is broken down by adding the lactase enzyme, which forms two simple sugars, glucose and galactose.

Be on the lookout during this challenge for: dextrose, maltodextrin, sucrose, fructose, cane sugar, evaporated cane juice, acesulfame potassium (sold as Sweet One — often combined with aspartame or sucralose to sweeten gum, diet soda and other sweet products), aspartame (Nutri - sweet and equal), saccharin (sold as Sweet n» Low), stevia (combined with sugar alcohol and sold under brand names like Truvia and Pure Via), erythritol (a sugar alcohol derivative of corn) xylitol, brown rice syrup (and other syrups), high fructose corn syrup (made by treating starch extracted from corn with enzymes to make fructose and glucose)-- and if there's anything on a food label that you think might be sugar, google it.

WellBetX PGX Ultra Matrix Softgels Plus Mulberry blends all the benefits of PGX with an extract of mulberry leaves, is shown to diminish after - meal spikes in glucose and insulin by blocking certain enzymes that break down starches and sugars in the body.

Our bodies operate through continual chemical reactions and some of those reactions actually create free radicals inside of our bodies like the breakdown of sugars by digestive enzymes or regular exercise — and that stuff is necessary for our survival — but some of the exposure comes from sources that aren't so great.

Amylase, an enzyme contained in saliva (also produced by the pancreas, but not relevant at the moment), begins to break starches down into individual sugar molecules.

An enzyme called amylase helps break down carbohydrates into glucose (blood sugar), which is used for energy by the body.

Sugar does not need to sit in the stomach and does not trigger HCl secretion: it needs to go straight through to the intestines where it is digested by the sugar degrading enzyme in an alkaline environment.

Providing 500 mg per capsule and standardized to contain a minimum.2 % Ursolic acid, Now's Holy Basil has been shown to help inhibit COX - 2 (inflammatory enzyme); reduce the negative effects stress has on the body by supporting the adrenals; help to maintain normal blood sugar levels and protect the nervous system.

Salivary Amylase is the most important digestive enzyme in the saliva initiating the process of digestion by breaking down some food starches into sugars.

People with lactose intolerance may be able to tolerate milk and other lactose - containing dairy products with the help of digestive enzymes containing lactase to break down the sugars or by consuming only lactose - free milk and dairy products.

Double sugars (called disaccharides) require splitting into the single sugars glucose, fructose or galactose by intestinal wall enzymes.

In several clinical trials, berberine effectively stabilized blood sugar by activating a regluatory enzyme known as adenosine monophosphate - activated protein kinase, or AMPK.

As you probably know, milk products contain lactose sugars, which are normally digested by lactase, an enzyme that breaks down the milk sugars to a digestible and absorbable form.

I'm all for this ripening - off process, it ensures that the pH (acidity) drops even a little lower, ensuring any lactose (milk sugar) is used up by the lactase enzyme produced by the beneficial bacteria which are multiplying rapidly in the kefir.

High insulin or insulin resistance from blood sugar imbalance also contributes to estrogen dominance by increasing the activity of an enzyme call aromatase, which is linked to the production of estrogen

Lactose, or milk sugar, is digested by an enzyme in the body known as lactase.

With bitters, digestive enzyme secretions are increased, helping to promote the complete breakdown of nutrients into their absorbable units, preventing gas formation when large molecules are acted upon by bacteria further down the small intestine.2, 11 The complete breakdown of proteins is particularly important, as the cross reactivity of immune cells between undigested protein molecules and intestinal cells plays an important role in the etiology of conditions such as celiac disease.15 Insulin and glucagon secretions are stimulated, helping to stabilize blood sugar levels.3, 11 Many bitters formulations have been traditionally used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, and it is interesting to point out that many naturally sweet substances are often paired with some bitterness in nature.4, 11 Herbalist Jim McDonald hypothesizes that our cravings for sweetness may mask cravings for bitterness for this reason.4

Lactose is a sugar found in milk that must be broken apart by an enzyme — lactase — before it can be digested properly.

These chews also include a powerful and beneficial enzyme called glucose oxidase, which helps protect your dog's teeth by breaking down the sugars that disease - causing bacteria feed on.

The pancreas not only produces pancreatic juice which contains digestive enzymes that help in the breaking down of food, it also plays a vital role in controlling the level of sugar in the bloodstream by secreting two important hormones, insulin and glucagon.

In dogs with normal sugar metabolism, glucose in the lens is metabolized by an enzyme called hexokinase into small molecules that diffuse out of the lens.

It is an organ that performs two very important functions: to help regulate the dog's blood sugar levels by produce hormones (insulin and glucagon); and to help in digestion by producing enzymes.

In humans, lactose intolerance is usually caused by a deficiency in lactase, the enzyme responsible for digesting lactose, which is the sugar in milk.

During digestion, the enzyme amylase breaks down starches into simple sugars, such as glucose, for use by the body as energy.

Using beets or sugar cane skips the mashing step where enzymes from malted grain turn the carbs into sugars which can then be fermented into alcohol by yet another fungi yeast.